Historical version 3 of Bamboo Grove, CR0 1BE (view current version)
- 020 8667 0070
- 133 South End, CR0 1BE (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
- bamboo-grove.co.uk
Caribbean restaurant in Croydon.
bob, elvum, Martin, Claire and [NorthernSteve]? visited on a Thursday evening. We had booked a table but this probably wasn't necessary. The restaurant can seat about 40. There is a disabled toilet. The kitchen is open.
The menu is small but cover all the intersting caribbean food stuffs. All of the dishes are presented very well which since the restaurant describes itself as carribean nouvelle cuisine is to be expected. We started with 2 starer platters(£14.70) and Creole Duck Empanadas(£5.70). The empanadas were pretty good and the platter were okay. The prawns were large and succulent.
bob and martin had the Goat curry (£12.70) which was served in a filo pastry tube. It was certainly tasty although perhaps lacking the kick it normally has. [NorthernSteve]? and Claire had the Jerk Chicken(£12.75) which was spicy. elvum had the Braised Oxtail (£12.90). Sides were about £3 and were fine. They had run out of Spicy rice though.
Lime cheesecake (£4.90) was quite good. A lot of lime.
The house red is a rather bland and inoffensive tempranillo at £13.50 a bottle. We ordered a Cotes du Rhone which they had run out of so they offered us a better Cotes du Rhone for the same price(£16.50). We were given a jug of tap water at the second time of asking. We suspect one of the staff may have been new and merely forgot.
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